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  • Wage the Uglydoll in Green-Wood Cemetery Is Missing

    tree with parting branches where Wage the Uglydoll used to sit in Green-Wood Cemetery

    While taking a walk in Green-Wood Cemetery this past weekend, Y and I discovered that our friend Wage the Uglydoll had gone missing! We first met him last year and visited him on occasion. He had been in his tree all through the winter and the beginning of spring this year. The last time that we saw him was in March 2025. Maybe he found a new home or went on a vacation. Wherever he is, we hope that he is safe.

    Below is a picture of Wage’s cousin, Country Wage, who lives with us and is a friend to our Mose.

    wage the uglydoll is an orange anthromorphic monster with orange skin and two tiny upturned teeth wearing a worker's apron and a straw hat with lanyard.

  • Blue Atlas Cedar Tree in Green-Wood Cemetery

    Y and I know this blue atlas cedar as “Big Tree Friend.” It grows somewhere in the middle of Green-Wood Cemetery. We walk around–turning here and there–until we eventually find it.

    It has been growing in Green-Wood Cemetery for over 100 years–assuming it was planted soon after the death of the person it memorializes, Joseph Kinyoun (Nov. 25, 1860-Feb. 14, 1919). Its circumference is so large that I don’t think Y and I could join hands around it.

    When you stand beneath it, it complete envelops you.

    On a hot day, it’s a good friend to have shade you.

  • 120-Ring Tree Downed in Green-Wood Cemetery

    Man counting rings on a cut down tree that has been uprooted from the ground.

    Near the corner of Mulberry Avenue and Fern Avenue in Green-Wood Cemetery, Y and I saw this once mighty tree felled and its trunk removed. All that remained was its stump and roots that had been pulled from the ground–perhaps due to the recent rains and high winds. I counted at least 120 rings.

    Tree stump shows signs of a wood boring insect infestation on its outer bands on over 1/2 its circumference.

    The side it fell towards shows an extensive wood boring infestation (more than half the the circumference of the outer bands on the side toward the bottom of the photo). Perhaps its roots were weakened on that side, which contributed to its fall.

    Switch to the satellite view of this point on Google Maps to see how large the tree was in better days.